The risk with fake groups, says PPCRV chair Tita De Villa, is not only it elbows out truly marginalized sectors but it serves as the backdoor entry for traditional politicians in the party-list system.

With 200 hospitals halt their operations and about 800 have partially shut-down, the Philippine healthcare system is really, in deepest trouble. And who is to blame? It’s the State, says militant Health Alliance for Democracy (HEAD).